COMMUNITY POLICING IN NIGERIA: An Overview

COMMUNITY POLICING IN NIGERIA: An Overview

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  COMMUNITY POLICING INNIGERIA: An Overview BY Dr Tanko Ahmed, fwc Managing Director, AANDEC Consult Limited, Abuja Guest Speaker
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  A Training Workshopfor Stakeholders of Community Policing Projects Across the Country Bauchi-Borno-Yobe and Adamawa-Gombe- Taraba Held in Maiduguri, Borno State, Wednesday 16 – Thursday 17, November 2022
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  INTRODUCTION ‘… Dan’sanda AbokinKowa …’
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  Background • Policing hascompleted its natural cycle, originating from a community function to a global network, and now back to base as community or universal policing. • The common phrase of ‘Dan’sanda Abokin Kowa’ (police the friend for all) has transformed into the new ‘Dan’sanda Na Kowa’ (policing for all by all). • The process of policing is intrinsically tied to the primary activities of the People. • The Police are the closest government agents to the community level.
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  History of CommunityPolicing • Policing originates in the formation of social or human grouping, society, community, and nation(s). • The popular idea that Community Policing in Nigeria originates from 2004 is a short-change of history. • From pre-colonial and colonial to post-independence and the current dispensation, the narrative on effective policing revolves around partnership in service delivery. • Policing in Nigeria might have been generally soiled with oppression, mistrust, and corruption BUT now endowed with the resolve of service with the people.
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  UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY POLICING
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  Concept of CommunityPolicing • Community Policing is the philosophy, practice, partnership, participation or process of police service delivery from the community to the larger society. • To the Police, it is the extension of partnership to the people, a force multiplication, and an ultimate service delivery system. • To the people, it is the ultimate participation in safety, security, self-organisation and governance, with the People’s Police Force. • The People’s participation in partnership with the Police are the key words in the concept of Community Policing.
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  Community Policing inNigeria • Policing is natural where there are common rules, customs, laws and duties requiring observation and sanctions. • Traditional policing may be eroded by time, in transitions and transformations, but the basic instinct to survive and safeguards values remain intact. • Community Policing in Nigeria went through historical transformations, from pre-colonial to colonial and post- independence, with serious challenges. • The current project, running for almost two decades since 2004, has completed its cycle, with the workshop for stakeholders.
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  COMMUNITY POLICING PROJECT INNIGERIA
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  Stakeholders of CommunityPolicing in Nigeria • The Federal Government in the White Paper directed that “The police should establish effective police- community linkages from the lowest to the highest levels to ensure the implementation of crime prevention strategies and policing priorities of the various communities”. • As a universal community policing programme, the entire citizens and their police force are the stakeholders.
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  The People’s Police •The Training Manual says that: police’s integration into the community it serves and in responding to the needs of that community, the community participating in its policing and supporting its police. Police Community Relations Committees (PCRC) Neighbourhood Watch schemes (Vigilante groups) • The Training Workshop for stakeholders is here to activate the entire process in various modules.
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  THE TRAINING WORKSHOP
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  Overview of theTraining Modules  Module 1: Overview of Comm Policing.  Module 2: Principles of Comm Policing.  Module 3: Legal and Inst Frameworks.  Module 4: Comm Policing Stakeholders.  Module 5: Operational Structure.
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  Other Modules  Module6: Community Policing and Human Rights.  Module 7: Strategies of Community Engagement and Conflict Resolution.  Module 8: Community Policing and Effective Intelligence-Led Policing.  Module 9: Implementation of Community Policing and Its Challenges.
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  CONCLUSION ‘… Dan’sanda NaKowa …’
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  Summary • Community Policingis all about Police-Citizen Partnership. • It is for quantitative and qualitative participatory interaction. • It is aimed at problem-solving in policing service delivery at the community level.
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  The 3Ps ofCommunity Policing •Partnership •Participation •Problem-Solving
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  THANK YOU FORLISTENING